Raena used to do 'kick-boxing' during her school and college days and was keen to watch the Thai Muay-Thai (kick-boxing). They had bought tickets to view this that afternoon and had informed pakdokter about it via sms.
The Thai Kick-Boxing is one of the tourist attractions on this island. A truck with loud-speakers would continously drive around the streets of Patong announcing the event with some of the boxers putting up demo-boxing on the converted open-air trucks. The ticket to watch the show came to 2000 bahts per person.
The Bangla Thai Boxing Stadium was packed with tourists - mostly Russian and the Scandinavian types. There were quite a huge female audience and the 3 to 4 hour event had about 10 fights - each fight lasting between 3 to 5 ot 6 rounds depending if the boxers could last to the end without suffering a 'knock-out'. Pakdokter found it quite 'brutal' and did not really enjoy the show. In one of the fights - a young Thai boxer received a severe kick to his abdomen and was knocked out. He was flat on the floor for at least 5-minutes and being a doctor , pakdokter was imagining a torn liver and an internal bleeding which would risk his life. Luckily after a 'massage' treatment from his assistants, he finally stood up and looked alright. In another fight between an Iranian teenage against a local Thai boy - the Iranian kid kicked the Thai boy on his left knee that he was 'knocked-out' because he could not stand up anymore and would have been beaten and kicked ( to death?!) if the judge had not stopped the fight and declared the winner. There was also a match between a ?Russian/Swedish girl against a local Thai girl which went for the full 5 or 6 rounds - although the huge Caucasian looked like to have had all the advantage, the small-sized but tough Thai girl finally was declared the winner when she was able to inflict more kicks and punches against her oppponent.
the full house Bangla Thai Boxing Stadium
these boys must be 12 years old!
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